tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post5863837985036698953..comments2015-09-11T09:51:32.382-04:00Comments on Debunking Christianity: "Everything That We See in the World Today is Exactly What We Would Expect if Evolution Were True" - DawkinsDr. Hector Avaloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10840869326406664177noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-72260673470583368872009-10-04T18:40:33.287-04:002009-10-04T18:40:33.287-04:00Page 364-365Page 364-365goprairiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00532311590000341237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-29804426118684899602009-09-30T13:54:31.087-04:002009-09-30T13:54:31.087-04:00Gandolf,
Go to the other thread, I&#39;ll respond...Gandolf,<br /><br />Go to the other thread, I&#39;ll respond to that oen and dump this one. Thanks man.District Supt. Harvey Burnetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15315686602819371111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-55495104908992791932009-09-30T02:07:29.516-04:002009-09-30T02:07:29.516-04:00Harvey said ...&quot;I also know that without God,...Harvey said ...&quot;I also know that without God, man has a tendencey to take what are otherwise helpful scientific discoveries and distort them and use them for evil purposes.&quot;<br /><br />Thats a wonderful sermon my friend Harv.<br /><br />Are you saying that with god/s people tend not to?.Could you please expand on this divine knowledge because im wondering how this relates also to folks burned at stakes etc.Gandolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02624178234332819107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-40911050042026278062009-09-28T13:13:23.294-04:002009-09-28T13:13:23.294-04:00The danger you pose is even more apparent when we ...The danger you pose is even more apparent when we consider your paranoid stance toward evolutionary theory. Are people who accept the fact of evolution really out to get you, Harvey? Did the idea of evolution leap from minds possessed of demons intent on destroying Christianity? Most Christians accept the scientific fact of evolution, while harboring no paranoia about it. Why are you different? What&#39;s happened in your mind that you see a 150 year-long conspiracy against what you stand for? Inside your ignorance, you implicate poor Charles Darwin, when outside your ignorance the world knows that his ideas relate to today&#39;s evolutionary theory in about the same way that van Leeuwenhoek&#39;s discovery of bacteria relates to modern medicine. Important historically, but no longer of practical day-to-day use. But, conspiracy theorists need a common enemy, a tangible target for their unified hatred, so you pick an innocent long-dead man who just like the rest of us was trying to make sense of world.<br /><br />You&#39;re presented two paths, Harvey: one path of study leading to knowledge and understanding, and another path of ignorant paranoia propped up with lies and distortions. The path of study is challenging and requires hard work, time, energy and intense effort to grasp how the pieces of the real world fit together. The other path asks nothing more of you than finding a few easily regurgitated lies about your object of paranoia, and keep retelling them. Lie, lie, lie and lie some more. If a lie is seen to have little affect, make up a better one. Along this indolent&#39;s path none of the pieces have to work together. None of those following this path need agree since they adhere to no standard.<br /><br />Why does Harvey Burnett intentionally choose the lazy man&#39;s path of lying ignorant paranoia instead of the path to understanding valued by those not afraid of hard work? I suppose we&#39;ll never know.<br /><br />Your failure to understand the world around you in a correct context, is underscored by your comment, <br /><b><br />Man I bring HOPE, HELP, and PEACE to someone EVERDAY of my life...in many cases just me being there is what someone needs to carry on with MEANINGFUL tasks and events of their existence...That&#39;s what I do.<br /></b><br />You fail to see that none of what you say here is Christian-specific. These are human traits. All we humans do these things all over the world. As has been pointed out here many times, these intentional misreadings of the world are also not common to all Christians; they appear to be peculiar to those of the same ilk as Harvey Burnett, but they reach their vile peak with Harvey himself.Russhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15316459700934662467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-23336530820642735352009-09-28T13:09:36.775-04:002009-09-28T13:09:36.775-04:00Harvey,
You said,
OK, is that right...evolutionar...Harvey,<br />You said,<br /><b><br />OK, is that right...evolutionary theory ends this way: live a senseless life where there is nothing that means anything except current relationships that essentially have no value, suffer meaninglessly, die without meaning, and last but not least, rot in the grave...I guess leave your bones for future archaeological study...One good thing huh?<br /></b><br />What you&#39;ve said here is rather nonsensical. It makes no sense to use the construction &quot;evolutionary theory ends this way.&quot; Then, you follow it up with nothing pertaining to evolutionary theory, but what I can only guess must be what you consider to be consequences of accepting the science of evolutionary theory.<br /><br />When you make these doltishly unrelated associations do you mean to debase the lives of all those who label themselves &quot;Christian,&quot; while also accepting evolutionary theory? Do you want to hurt Francis Collins? Do you hope to wound Kenneth Miller? Do you crave to eviscerate that small percentage of the National Academy of Science and the Royal Society who count themselves among the Christians? Do you wish to cut out the heart of each and every person who recognizes the fact that is evolutionary theory, even though they are denizens of some Christianity? <br /><br />You seek to hurt and insult. You want to demean, debase and denigrate. You tear at people emotionally. You try to inflict pain and suffering. And, then, with your casual overbearing impudence, you exalt yourself, you arrogantly hold up Harvey Burnett as a shining moral paragon, by saying:<br /><b><br />Man I bring HOPE, HELP, and PEACE to someone EVERDAY of my life...in many cases just me being there is what someone needs to carry on with MEANINGFUL tasks and events of their existence...That&#39;s what I do.<br /></b><br />You bring all-caps HOPE? You bring all-caps PEACE? I don&#39;t think so, Harvey. I see you as exemplifying the worst that religion has to offer. I truly think that from what you continually relate on various forums, including your own, about how you, and only you, actually know what constitutes real Bible-based Christianity, that the only thing that keeps you from massacring those who disagree with you - me and my family, others on this forum, Christians who have views differing from yours, essentially anyone who is not a <i>Harvey Burnett Christian</i>- is the secular protections our social system has in place. I&#39;m convinced that you&#39;re among that religious ilk which, without enforcible secular protections, you&#39;d be cutting throats, hanging, burning, torturing, and otherwise exterminating anyone who doesn&#39;t share your particular version of Christian delusion. <br /><br />Your holy book demands such things, and it&#39;s clear that your personal willingness to vilify and dehumanize people knows no bounds. Here, you attack people over a scientific discipline you are obviously completely ignorant of. Unfortunately, your religiously induced malignancy of ignorance is irremedial. You can never admit to being wrong. You can never admit that you don&#39;t know. Trained experts, Christian or not, are wrong. You have abandoned the path to knowledge. By doing so, you have forever shackled yourself to ignorance, no doubt, for you, a self-satisfying and soothing ignorance. Your ignorance defines you, Harvey. Your mind is screwed up. You are no longer educable.Russhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15316459700934662467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-73656338406369325022009-09-28T12:02:38.427-04:002009-09-28T12:02:38.427-04:00gandolf,
you said:Hey next time you get sick Harv...gandolf,<br /><br />you said:<i>Hey next time you get sick Harv dont bother asking for those senseless meds.....Man one has to wonder why so many folks even spend time senselessly creating them all,hell wouldnt it be wonderful if our children had to suffer as much as possible in this world.</i><br /><br />The difference between us my friend is that I know that it was God who gave man whatever ability he has to discover science (which by the way existes since man was created)and create medicines or whatever man uses to help one another. <br /><br />I also know that without God, man has a tendencey to take what are otherwise helpful scientific discoveries and distort them and use them for evil purposes. Atomic energy will light out homes and that&#39;s good, but it will also destroy nations and that&#39;s bad...<br /><br />So the point of acknowledge is where we part, secondly many statemsents of evolution are bad simply because they are bad science, not because God said so...that&#39;s where you fail to understand my arguments because you believe I enter with a Christian presuppositional bias...I only have a Christian control belief and world view, but I am not hampered from looking at good evidence and evaluating it on best principles. <br /><br />However, you don&#39;t offer the same courtesy. You becasue of metaphysical naturalism BEGIN with a presuppositional bias that NOTHING you see or find will lead you to or indicate a &quot;footprint&quot; of God. That&#39;s where I believe that you (representative of other MN&#39;rs) lack. <br /><br />So I god against evolution because primarily it&#39;s bad scinece....when I read comments like sampfire&#39;s, who says that &quot;species&quot; basically means nothing an that all animals are in some sort of quasi-cross DNA mix...that&#39;s scarry and IF that evolution, I can&#39;t see how any rational human being could fathom it.District Supt. Harvey Burnetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15315686602819371111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-66963330490010679212009-09-27T22:36:24.929-04:002009-09-27T22:36:24.929-04:00Russ said....&quot;As far as Christians understand...Russ said....&quot;As far as Christians understanding evolutionary theory, Harvey, there are ones like you who are intentionally ignorant and who try to perpetuate their own ignorance, thus harming us all. There are those who are stellar scientists like Ken Miller, thus helping us all. And, there are those who are honestly ininformed about evolution. These are easy prey for persons like you who want them to fail to understand it.&quot;<br /><br />Damm right Russ, and bloody dangerious it is too in my opinion.How much damage has been instigated and done to this planet driven by faith believers believing this planet is actaully so despensable as another life awaits them all afterward,do you suppose?.<br /><br />Pascals wager of complete utter stupidity, anyone keen?...Shall we gamble with that that we know we actually do have,for that that we dont yet actually know much about for sure?.<br /><br />Lets see there is Christianity Islam Hinduism Judaism Buddhism Cheondoism Cao Dai and so very many more to be indoctrinated or born into,but you better choose.Because its a very very educated type thought isnt it?, that our ignorance through lack of any real evidence being supplied in this world will very likely bring wrath and punishment from some god/s.Hell everyone deserve to be punished for that what is really so hard to understand!,common sense see.<br /><br />Scientists try to learn more and sometimes later even change their mind admitting to being wrong,the fools they start from a point of not knowing and work towards trying to be able to say they maybe do understand a little more.Where as faith believers by use of old words/thoughts and stories of ancient men already damm know it all!.<br /><br />Go figure!.<br /><br />Our friendly Harv says....&quot;OK, is that right...evolutionary theory ends this way: live a senseless life where there is nothing that means anything except current relationships that essentially have no value, suffer meaninglessly, die without meaning, and last but not least, rot in the grave&quot;<br /><br />Yes dear honest Harv, its such a senseless valueless life this one we mortals are all living.Man its so worthless if it wasnt for the possible wrath of the gods im quite sure everyone would be real keen and ready to quickly jump off the nearest bridge. <br /><br />Hey next time you get sick Harv dont bother asking for those senseless meds.....Man one has to wonder why so many folks even spend time senselessly creating them all,hell wouldnt it be wonderful if our children had to suffer as much as possible in this world.Gandolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02624178234332819107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-8394708823270861442009-09-27T21:25:55.074-04:002009-09-27T21:25:55.074-04:00Russ said... &quot;It saddens me that from the pul...Russ said... &quot;It saddens me that from the pulpit you denigrate and lie about precisely the same science that you, your fellow churchmen, as well as the rest of us, live on.&quot;<br /><br />&quot;For the rest of us, including the Christianities that accept the established science of evolutionary theory(that&#39;s most of them), it is a complete waste of human potential.<br /><br />You pervert those people&#39;s minds to the point where they are less capable of understanding and interpreting the world around them when you pervert the science we all are completely dependent on to survive. Remember, Harvey, they can live without you, they cannot live in today&#39;s world without science, and understanding it would make their lives so much better.&quot;<br /><br />Hi Russ.<br /><br />Yes its both saddening and sickening as well.<br /><br /><br />Im becoming more and more of the opinion now these days that humans dont have plenty of time left to carry on just simply trying to discuss these things with the &quot;people of the many god,s&quot; on this planet by always trying to adhere to use of niceties when doing it.<br /><br />Not sure, guess maybe that puts me in the catagory of being what some are calling &quot;militant atheism&quot; these days.Yet maybe a bit like you seem to be, i just see how much faith beliefs in this world can help make many people drag the chain and produce a type of ignorance that effects us all.<br /><br />Folks can call me just &quot;militant&quot; if it makes them feel better,im sure not gonna bother to lose any sleep over names.<br />But on this planet there is many things that seem to need to be dealt with pretty much A.S.A.P,and the ignorance of many faith believers with such a belief of a afterlife etc sure doesnt do much to help motivate certain folks who follow them to feel any great urgency of sorting many things out down here.<br /><br />Their thoughts often seem to be (i) believe in god (MY) afterlife is sorted and thats all that matters,i suggest in a very nasty selfish kind of way.<br /><br />So yes some folks will call me &quot;militant&quot;,but personally i see it as really being much more about survival.<br /><br />And to be honest im starting to feel many faithful folks dont deserve use of the benefits of science and the modern world etc,to be dished out to them so freely whenever it suits.<br /><br />Yes pleasant lengthly discussion is always a wonderful thing,but sometimes real hard evidence is also needed to help prove matters more.<br /><br />Maybe its time the great benefits of science and the modern world are now presented to hard arsed faith belevers like our dear Harv in much more evidential purposeful way.It may help spark a brain wave or two, maybe??.<br /><br /><br />For instance should any of these hard arsed faith believers find their daughters have been raped,and the pleasure of science and gene technology etc could actually become useful.<br /><br />The cops in these cases could simply say, bless you my son! and praise the lord!.You (already) believe god/s have all the answers,so why the hell come ask anything of me?.Quick, go elswhere and simply fall on your knees.<br /><br />Of course they would then bleat, windge and moan and blog on the net about being so horribly persecuted etc for awhile.<br /><br />But i was thinking maybe it might help a few more understand a little more that (this world) is a lot like a boat we (all do) happen to share.<br /><br />And maybe it might help a few more think a little more, about maybe how many others are actually already being persecuted and abused because of stupid religious beliefs that drag the chain in this world.Gandolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02624178234332819107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-59704941236714572162009-09-27T20:05:48.331-04:002009-09-27T20:05:48.331-04:00Harvey BTW, I&#39;m not a young earther either nei...Harvey <i>BTW, I&#39;m not a young earther either neither a fundy...Im my opinion there is a LOT of time unaccounted for in the Genesis account...the use of &quot;yom&quot; and the time before Adam&#39;s sin and his days are highly questionable so far as the narrative is concerned...</i><br /><br />Well, Harvey this is good to know, but I have seen you arguing for a young creation, when did you change? Also, I hope that I am not detecting a hint of the &quot;gap theory&quot; in your statements. That&#39;s a dead view only held by certain types of dispensationalists and Ruckmanites.<br /><br /><i>Since you readily admit that evolution can stay in place with limited knowledge, I say the same about God...</i><br /><br />That&#39;s fine if you want to argue this way, but you must understand that &quot;limited knowledge&quot; does not equate to no knowledge nor does it mean that we cannot come up with good theories (the scientific understanding of theory, that is, or to use Dawkins word: theorum). Nor does it mean that simply because science cannot (yet) explain something due to this &quot;limited knowledge&quot; does not mean that &quot;god&quot; did it.Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17693944542336729866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-4355885292409455692009-09-27T19:51:17.568-04:002009-09-27T19:51:17.568-04:00Harvey: That was WRONG. Dawkins said 40%
I knew t...Harvey: <i>That was WRONG. Dawkins said 40%</i><br /><br />I knew that you had written the number wrong, I gave you the benefit of the doubt that you simply mistyped it which is why I didn&#39;t repeat the number. No big deal, we all make little mistakes like that all the time.<br /><br /><i>So from what you said are you an ID&#39;er?</i><br /><br />Not anymore. Although there are some IDers who embrace evolution, Behe being one, their numbers are far and few between. Kenneth Miller exposed enough of the problems with ID that I eventually rejected it. Soon after I ended up rejecting Christianity completely after realizing the extreme problems with the bible&#39;s historicity and the issues of biblical criticism (all expounded by Enns and Sparks).Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17693944542336729866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-30218966959701633592009-09-27T19:44:20.994-04:002009-09-27T19:44:20.994-04:00Anthony,
BTW, I&#39;m not a young earther either ...Anthony,<br /><br />BTW, I&#39;m not a young earther either neither a fundy...Im my opinion there is a LOT of time unaccounted for in the Genesis account...the use of &quot;yom&quot; and the time before Adam&#39;s sin and his days are highly questionable so far as the narrative is concerned...<br /><br />Since you readily admit that evolution can stay in place with limited knowledge, I say the same about God...District Supt. Harvey Burnetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15315686602819371111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-32761822858224182002009-09-27T19:41:05.137-04:002009-09-27T19:41:05.137-04:00Anthony,
I said this earlier:Dawkins admits that ...Anthony,<br /><br />I said this earlier:<i>Dawkins admits that only 60% of Americans don&#39;t believe in EVOLUTION...whay is that?</i><br /><br />That was WRONG. Dawkins said 40% and that he was trying to reach that 40% to establish his premise. I was trying to find that comment because I wrote it wrong.<br /><br />So from what you said are you an ID&#39;er?<br /><br />Thanks.District Supt. Harvey Burnetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15315686602819371111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-66260333539572730432009-09-27T19:20:22.664-04:002009-09-27T19:20:22.664-04:00Harvey Go to any bookstore and pick up Hanegraff, ...Harvey <i>Go to any bookstore and pick up Hanegraff, Johnson, Strobel, Behe, Dembski (sic), and a whole host of others and get a perspective</i><br /><br />I read Johnson&#39;s &quot;Darwin on Trial&quot; back in the mid 90s soon after reading Michael Denton&#39;s &quot;Evolution: A Theory in Crisis.&quot; It was then that I embraced what later became known as &quot;intelligent design.&quot; I have read some of Moreland, Behe, Meyer, Dembski, Wells and a host of others. I have only read one of Hanegraaff&#39;s books and it wasn&#39;t on evolution, but I doubt that he would have anything better to argue. Strobel I haven&#39;t read but I do have several of his books in my library. So, Harvey, I do have perspective.<br /><br /><i>YET, Dawkins admits that only 60% of Americans don&#39;t believe in EVOLUTION...whay is that?</i><br /><br />Harv, there is a simple reason why so many Americans (the case is the same for other countries) reject evolution - it&#39;s called IGNORANCE! Much of this ignorance comes from people like you, proclaiming from the pulpits - it&#39;s God or evolution. Evolution is inadequately taught in most public schools due to people like you who become activists against evolution and get into school boards and then try to force your creationist/id shit down the throats of children, or if that doesn&#39;t work, then try to water down the teachings of evolution in the science classes.<br /><br />During all those years that I was a young earth creationist/intelligent design advocate, I was in ignorance of the evidence for evolution. I was so convinced that the Bible was true that I simply assumed that evolution was untrue and used the arguments from the creationist and ID &quot;experts.&quot; This is the situation that you are in Harvey. You have not read anything of substance by an evolution, all of your arguments come from creationists and IDers. No objectivity on your part to at least learn what the other side says. That is so sad.Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17693944542336729866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-60462724406742789012009-09-27T16:55:12.155-04:002009-09-27T16:55:12.155-04:00goprarie,
You need to GOPRAY...but in the meantim...goprarie,<br /><br />You need to GOPRAY...but in the meantime you said this silly rambling mess...<i>instead of being grateful to a mythological being for whom there is no evidence, they are grateful to other people and they do things back for other people instead of useless praying.</i><br /><br />Forst of all God is not mythological and there is all kinds of evidence for him such as what you see through biological science...there is no reason for you to be different than a piece of rock if not for God...ie: materialism does not require consciousness or any of the diffence between you and a stone or a piece of dirt...God is the only difference...If you don&#39;t belive so please explain the metaphysical necessity of consciousness...I&#39;d like to hear it. <br /><br />Then you said: <i>&quot;btw if god answers prayers and protects and heals, why do you need to sell insurance to people?</i><br /><br />Because part of the promise of God is that we all will leave this world and &quot;a good man leaveth an inheritance to his children&#39;s children&quot; (Prov. 13:22) and you better watch out because YOUR wealth is laid up for ME to enjoy-LOL<br /><br />In other words Christians have a deeper value of ALL things temporary and eternal...you&#39;re like a one legged stool...no balance.District Supt. Harvey Burnetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15315686602819371111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-14087575942844981572009-09-27T16:25:58.499-04:002009-09-27T16:25:58.499-04:00DSHB
You bring myth, blind ignorance, and hope in ...DSHB<br />You bring myth, blind ignorance, and hope in something that doesn&#39;t exist. Some find foolish comfort in that. There may not be &#39;meaning&#39; in the naive way that you think of it, but atheists take as much joy in family and friends and daily life as anyone, without ascribing any faky mythological meaning to it. instead of being grateful to a mythological being for whom there is no evidence, they are grateful to other people and they do things back for other people instead of useless praying. you waste time interacting with a diety that does not exist, making false promises to others about that nonexistant diety, and relying on that mythical diety when you should be interacting with people about real things. <br />btw if god answers prayers and protects and heals, why do you need to sell insurance to people?goprairiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00532311590000341237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-6173397034206391742009-09-27T15:27:56.994-04:002009-09-27T15:27:56.994-04:00Anthony,
You asked:What substantial works have be...Anthony,<br /><br />You asked:<i>What substantial works have been written by creationists lately that demonstrate the scientific evidence for creation or the problems with evolution? Go ahead and list them.</i><br /><br />Go to any bookstore and pick up Hanegraff, Johnson, Strobel, Behe, Dembski (sic), and a whole host of others and get a perspective...in fact look at this...EVOLUTION has been taught as you so proudly say for years and has &quot;great scholarship&quot; (laugh-laugh) behind it right? YET, Dawkins admits that only 60% of Americans don&#39;t believe in EVOLUTION...whay is that? In his case he believes that most American&#39;s are so dumb as that they don&#39;t know the difference and if we were &quot;exposed&quot; to his version of truth we&#39;d all be evolutionists, but quite the opposite is true, the more the foolish talk about evolution the more ridiculous it becomes...all of this is entertainment value for me because NONE of you can ever get past FIRST CAUSE...not even mathematically can you get to the first living organism yet alone anything that resembles natural selection...secondly evolution can&#39;t even come close to explaining consciousness in any way...so NONE of what you say holds water...the record is CLEAR all living things were created...I say that they were created by God as he has revealed himself within scripture and what we find is totally sonsistent with what he has revealed and what we don&#39;t know I takelike you atheists do BY FAITH...because that&#39;s ALL anyof you USE...<b>F A I T H in metaphysical naturalism...</b>District Supt. Harvey Burnetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15315686602819371111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-84367219745142359232009-09-27T15:16:59.692-04:002009-09-27T15:16:59.692-04:00Russ,
You said:It&#39;s not a total joke. In fact...Russ,<br /><br />You said:<i>It&#39;s not a total joke. In fact, evolutionary theory is helping to look out for your family, something your religion isn&#39;t capable of doing.</i><br /><br />OK, is that right...evolutionary theory ends this way: live a senseless life where there is nothing that means anything except current relationships that essentially have no value, suffer meaninglessly, die without meaning, and last but not least, rot in the grave...I guess leave your bones for future archaeological study...One good thing huh?<br /><br />Man I bring HOPE, HELP, and PEACE to someone EVERDAY of my life...in many cases just me being there is what someone needs to carry on with MEANINGFUL tasks and events of their existence...That&#39;s what I do.District Supt. Harvey Burnetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15315686602819371111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-83727257525447846452009-09-27T15:10:19.429-04:002009-09-27T15:10:19.429-04:00Jim,
You asked:Where in the strata would &quot;Cr...Jim,<br /><br />You asked:<i>Where in the strata would &quot;Creationist Theory&quot; predict that we would find an animal with partial aquatic features and partial land animal features like Tiktaalik?</i><br /><br />I simply say that you mean to tell me that you think it is fathomable that an animal has both lings and gills, skin and feathers, eyes that are adapted bopth to land journey and stays at sea for longs periods of time and you somehow don&#39;t think that being is superior to us?<br /><br />Well, I guess I can see how especially when that same animal would actually be unfunctional in the real world due to his diversity of being...i mean strip away the scientific terms for a minute and picture a double adapted animal such as you THINK has been found...How does that animal function? What is it&#39;s diet? Not fully fish, not fully flesh eating (I suppose) only plants???District Supt. Harvey Burnetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15315686602819371111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-73262979027247088592009-09-27T15:05:03.090-04:002009-09-27T15:05:03.090-04:00Jonathan,
You said:In Christianity anyone can sta...Jonathan,<br /><br />You said:<i>In Christianity anyone can start a church, create a Christ-like doctrine, develop a following, sell books, and earn a decent amount of money, based solely on their personality and speaking skills, and some knowledge of the bible.</i><br /><br />Let&#39;s place this in the proper perspective...it should go like this: <br /><br /><b>In Christianity(Atheism) anyone can start a church (an idea), create a Christ-like doctrine (claim metaphysical naturalism), develop a following (develop and create a network of phony scientific evidences) , sell books, and earn a decent amount of money, based solely on their personality (hatred of God which they say doesn&#39;t exist) and speaking skills, and some knowledge of the bible (some skewed and twisted scientific knowledge and faulty logic).</b><br /><br />I think the second set without any reference to Christianity, God or the Bible is MOST accurate.District Supt. Harvey Burnetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15315686602819371111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-69221803028819430402009-09-27T03:54:59.099-04:002009-09-27T03:54:59.099-04:00District Supt. Harvey Burnett said...
You just ma...<b>District Supt. Harvey Burnett said...</b><br /><br />You just mad because you believe in STUPIDITY too-LOL<br /><br />Evolution is verifiable Christianity is not. <br /><br />Protestantism<br />Adventists Anabaptist Baptist Calvinist Charismatic Congregational Lutheran Methodist / Wesleyan Nazarene Pentecostal Plymouth Brethren Presbyterian Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) Reformed Restoration movement Seventh-day Adventist Waldensians<br /><br /> You cannot defend your position because you yourself do not believe other denominations of Christianity or legitimate. If Christians were more science-like in their approach to their practice there would only be one form of practice. Unlike in science you need to have actually proof that your data is correct and have it verified by others in your field. <br /><br /> In Christianity anyone can start a church, create a Christ-like doctrine, develop a following, sell books, and earn a decent amount of money, based solely on their personality and speaking skills, and some knowledge of the bible. <br /><br /> Think of Todd Bentley as an example who claimed that people rose from the dead because of his on air sermons. Todd isn’t a scientist he doesn’t need to have the same standards of proof. He doesn’t need the <b> same standards</b> because the standard a Christian uses to determine divine intervention is considerable <i>lower</i> much <b>lower</b> then what you would find in science. <br /><br /> Example would be if you thought you had a specific illness the 1st doctor says you have it, but you are unsure of the diagnoses you would visit a 2nd opinion that is not related with the 1st doctor. Would you do the same thing with a priest? Would a Christian seek the advice of a different minister? Probable not. <br /><br /><b> District Supt. Harvey Burnett said...</b><br /> So that&#39;s how it&#39;s done now? Novices can&#39;t read critically and assess information with other available information?<br /><br /> Your main motivation to rebuke the theory of evolution has less to do with critically assess information. Your rejection of the theory of evolution has more to do with your specific Christian beliefs. Science unlike Theology is not based on a person’s opinion. Science is based on data that you can present and have peer reviewed. You can personally rebuke evolution all you want but until you do the grunt work of collecting of data, performing experiments, and writing papers, you <b>opinion</b> is, well your <b>opinion</b> and nothing more. <br /><br /><br /><b>evangelico said...</b><br /><br /> Stupid goprairies - there is no evolution in bacteria becoming resistant but a mere adaptation to a ever growing harsh environment (for the bacteria) it adapts ! It does not become another species... still there is no evolution...<br /><br /><br />Adapt is also known as change, alter, modify, adjust, vary, revise, amend, bend, fit, and rework. <br /><br />Evolution is also known development, fruition, growth, progress, and advancement. <br /><br /><br /><b> who is stupid?</b><br /><br />Laugh out Loud for sure.Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00715319397553428894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-50056387005570193862009-09-26T23:02:08.309-04:002009-09-26T23:02:08.309-04:00Harvey, My Sweet,
You said,
You just mad because ...Harvey, My Sweet,<br />You said,<br /><b><br />You just mad because you believe in STUPIDITY too-LOL<br /></b><br />No, Harvey, I not just mad, and I not believe in all-caps STUPIDITY. Evolutionary Theory has the status that it does precisely because it corresponds to the natural world and gives us broad explanatory and predictive power. What do you have?<br /><br />Let&#39;s see. Oh, yeah. There are things like &quot;Destroy Your Computer&quot;(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/09/destroy_your_computer_now.php) and &quot;Rapture 2009&quot;(http://home.flash.net/~evt/rapture.htm). The second one tells us that the rapture was certain to happen on 9/22/2009, but no one disappeared. Why not? Because religious claims are stupid and unreliable.<br /><br />You said,<br /><b><br />Your whole belief system accounts for nothing but make believe when it comes to evolution...they you guys act as if noone knows current info but you...what atotal joke!<br /><br />That&#39;s your defense? &quot;Us poor Christians just can&#39;t understand&quot;...<br /></b><br />Actually, Harvey, evolutionary theory accounts for a great deal, and we do not think that no one knows current info but us, but we do know that you&#39;re not one who does.<br /><br />It&#39;s not a total joke. In fact, evolutionary theory is helping to look out for your family, something your religion isn&#39;t capable of doing.<br /><br />As far as Christians understanding evolutionary theory, Harvey, there are ones like you who are intentionally ignorant and who try to perpetuate their own ignorance, thus harming us all. There are those who are stellar scientists like Ken Miller, thus helping us all. And, there are those who are honestly ininformed about evolution. These are easy prey for persons like you who want them to fail to understand it.Russhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15316459700934662467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-26661904386018583452009-09-26T22:47:48.404-04:002009-09-26T22:47:48.404-04:00Harvey,
Where in the strata would &quot;Creationi...Harvey,<br /><br />Where in the strata would &quot;Creationist Theory&quot; predict that we would find an animal with partial aquatic features and partial land animal features like Tiktaalik?<br /><br />Where in the strata would &quot;Creationist Theory&quot; predict we would find fossilized Three-Toes Sloths? Would it predict sloths beneath the dinosaurs since they are (arguably) slower than even the slowest dinosaur and could not escape the flood waters?<br /><br />Standard evolutionary theory has predictive power for these types of questions--&quot;Creationism Theory&quot; has none as far as I can tell . . .<br /><br />Can creationism theory (or theories) be used to predict anything?Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03562922818694517439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-70927495513763295342009-09-26T22:19:54.923-04:002009-09-26T22:19:54.923-04:00Harvey: you guys act as if noone knows current inf...Harvey: <i>you guys act as if noone knows current info but you</i><br /><br />But Harv, you in fact demonstrate that you do NOT know the current information regarding the theory of evolution and its evidence. Remember man, many of us used to believe as you do, we know the arguments, we know the mentality. We are just trying to get you to be objective enough to actually read a couple of substantial books like Prothero and Coyne (and even Dawkins new book) but you continue to refuse.<br /><br />What substantial works have been written by creationists lately that demonstrate the scientific evidence for creation or the problems with evolution? Go ahead and list them.Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17693944542336729866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-2105224325548428092009-09-26T22:13:45.740-04:002009-09-26T22:13:45.740-04:00Harvey,
You continue to make statements of things...Harvey,<br /><br />You continue to make statements of things that you have not investigated. Regarding the evidence from the fossil record, I direct your attention to Donald Prothero&#39;s book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Evolution-What-Fossils-Say-Matters/dp/0231139624/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1254016963&amp;sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters</a>. Prothero meticulously takes apart creationism and their (your&#39;s) misunderstanding and shows that the fossil record confirms evolution quite nicely.<br /><br />The problem Harvey is that you, like your fellow creationists, will ignore the import of the evidence and will simply dismiss it and explain it away. Tell me Harvey, what type of evidence in the fossil record would convince you that evolution has occurred?<br /><br />On the issue of credibility, remember Harvey you are the one who for example argued that the amount of moon dust favored young earth creationism. I called you on the carpet for using an argument that was discredited decades ago and even Answers in Genesis tells creationists to not use. But yet, there you were using the same refuted argument. Tell me who is more informed?Anthonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17693944542336729866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21219785.post-16425377208866406742009-09-26T21:16:22.086-04:002009-09-26T21:16:22.086-04:00Russ,
You just mad because you believe in STUPIDI...Russ,<br /><br />You just mad because you believe in STUPIDITY too-LOL<br /><br />Your whole belief system accounts for nothing but make believe when it comes to evolution...they you guys act as if noone knows current info but you...what atotal joke!<br /><br />That&#39;s your defense? &quot;Us poor Christians just can&#39;t understand&quot;...District Supt. Harvey Burnetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15315686602819371111noreply@blogger.com